Small Monsters
Novelette 7,640 words Recommended by 5 award/anthology sources
All its life, a small monster with emerald scales has been a source of never-ending food to larger and more powerful creatures who feast on the small monster’s limbs each time one regrows. This is the story of how the small monster meets an industrious artist and re-forms into someone new—someone who can’t be eaten.
Content warnings 4
abusebody-horrorchild-abuseviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Tor.com, where the author gets the click.